The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 12
One day, as they were sitting happily together under a lime-tree in front of the castle, Prince Fickle broke the sad news to Helena that he must return to his parents to get their consent to his marriage.
Who acts: wooers, Prince · What happens: sit, break, return, get, consent, marry · To what, where: One day, lime tree, sad news, Helena, consent
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wooers, Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 sitting | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sitting | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | aux |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 8 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 9 together | advmod |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 sitting | advmod |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 12 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 lime | punct |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 front | case |
| 16 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 front | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 broke | nsubj |
| 22 | Fickle | Fickle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Prince | flat |
| 23 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 news | det |
| 25 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 news | amod |
| 26 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 broke | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Helena | case |
| 28 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 broke | obl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 return | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 return | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 return | aux |
| 32 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 broke | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 parents | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 parents | nmod:poss |
| 35 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 return | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 get | mark |
| 37 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 return | advcl |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 consent | nmod:poss |
| 39 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 get | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 marriage | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 42 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 get | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | wooers = wooer | One day not said here | a lime tree | in front of the castle; together property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent day=Theme under tree=Location | ||
| 2 | break | past | Prince | the sad news | Helena | day | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent news=Patient to helena=Result | ||
| 3 | return | must | Prince | to Prince's parents result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to parent=Result | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | wooers's consent | to Prince's marriage | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consent=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | consent | wooers = wooer | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | marry | Prince | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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